David Casa appeals to MEPs to take immediate action on stranded migrants

PN MEP David Casa sent an email to all MEPs earlier this morning calling for representatives of member states to put money where their mouth is and replace 'declarations' of solidarity with an effective response

Casa told the MEPs that he had sat for over 15 years of declarations inside the European Parliament calling for the safeguarding of human life.

"This is the time to put those words into action. Not through more declarations, but by using your influence with your respective governments to show true solidarity and offer refuge to the vulnerable people on board the Sea Watch vessels," he wrote.

David Hudson is an IGM press awards (Investigative stories) winner of 2019